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Science Chap. 2 Flashcards

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Conquistador

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A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain

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Pueblo

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A town in the Spanish colonies; A village or town of the Anasazi or other American Indian groups in the American southwest.

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Presidio

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A fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies

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Peninsular

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A person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony

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Mission

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A religious settlement run by catholic priests and friars; A settlement that aims to spread a religion to a new area.

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Creole

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A person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents.

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Mestizo

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In Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian back round.

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Northwest Passage

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A waterway through or around North America.

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Corers De Bois

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A French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlements as a fur trapper.

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Alliance

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An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.

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Charter

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A legal document giving certain rights to a person or colony.

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Burgess

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A representative to the colonial Virginia government.

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Representative government

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A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

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Bacon’s Rebellion

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in 1676 Revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony’s government

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Pilgrim

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An English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s

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Mayflower compact

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A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth compact

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Puritan

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A group of English protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay colony.

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General Court

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The deleted representative assembly of the Massachusetts Bay colony.

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Religious Tolerance

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The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

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Town Meeting

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The meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters.

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Proprietary Colony

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An English colony in with the King gaveled to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment

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Royal Colony

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A colony under direct control of the English crown.

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Quacker

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Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

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Pennsylvania Dutch

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German-Speaking protestants who settled in Pennsylvania

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Cash Crop

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A crop sold for money at market

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Act of Toleration

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A 1694 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians

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Indigo

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A plant used to make valuable, blue dye.

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Debtor

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A person who cannot pay money he or she owns

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Slave Code

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Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights.

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Racism

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The belief that one race is superior to another.

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Gentry

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The highness social class in English colonies

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Middle class

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In the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some trade people.

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Great awakening

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A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid 1700s, also known as the first great awakening

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Apprentice

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A person who learns a trade or craft from a master.

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Dame School

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A school run by women, usually in their own homes.

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Enlightenment

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The movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s, that emphasizes the use of reason.

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Libel

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The act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a persons reputation.

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Mercantilism

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The theory that a nations economic strength came from selling more than it bought from the nations.

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Export

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A trade product sent to markets outside of a country

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Import

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Trade products brought into a country

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Navigation acts

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A series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies.

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Yankee

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A nickname for New Englanders

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Triangular trade

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The colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies

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Legislator

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A group of people, usually elected, who have the power to make laws.

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Glorious revolution

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In 1688, the movement that brought Willian and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens

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Bill of Rights

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The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution

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English Bill of Rights

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a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens.

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Gullah

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A combination of English and West African languages spoken by African Americans in South Carolina and Georgia.

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